Wikipedia:WikiProject Systems/List of historical highlights for systems

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This article is a start to give a list of major events concerning the theory and practice of systems in science and society.

1901

• September 19 1901, Vienna, Austria: Ludwig von Bertalanffy is born.

1954

• Society for General Systems Research (SGST)

1956

• Society for General Systems Research (SGSR)

1960

• Dr. A. Wayne Wymore founded the first academic department of Systems Engineering in the world at the University of Arizona in 1960.

1969

• Man on the moon

1972

• June 12 1972 New York, USA: Ludwig von Bertalanffy dies.

1987

• SGSR becomes ISSS

See also

• Systems theory
• Systems engineering